Re: [Felvtalk] My experience with IV ascorbic acid and FIP - Final

[Sharyl]

I made some tiny urls for the links Sally listed in her post.

Guide to the Use of Vitamin C
http://tinyurl.com/Clinical-guide-Vit-C

Megascorbic Therapy:  A New Orthomolecular Modality in Veterinary Medicine
http://tinyurl.com/Megascorbic-paper

Orthomolecular Approach to Feline Leukemia Prevention and Control
http://tinyurl.com/Belfields-paper

Sharyl


--- On Thu, 11/26/09, S. Jewell  wrote:

> From: S. Jewell 
> Subject: [Felvtalk] My experience with IV ascorbic acid and FIP - Final
> To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
> Date: Thursday, November 26, 2009, 12:26 PM
> I posted a couple of links earlier
> that I found helpful
> throughout the course of this nightmare and I post them
> again below for those of you who may wish to undertake the
> intravenous ascorbate protocol for your cats with FIP,
> FeLV,
> URI, and other cat diseases.  If I had it to do over
> again,
> each of my three cats would have been placed immediately
> on
> the ascorbate and kept there until their fevers
> eradicated,
> for only then is the virus also eradicated and left
> powerless to replicate or resurface.  I have also
> used
> intravenous ascorbate with one of my cats with
> life-threatening upper respiratory infection (and chronic
> pseudomonas aeruginosa) in conjunction with antibiotics.
> She received a single vitamin C drip on Friday, then
> antibiotics in her IV on Saturday and by Sunday night her
> symptoms were all but gone (except of course for the
> P.A.).
> And as I posted previously, my FeLV cat Linus has carried
> a
> diagnosis of lymphosarcoma for nearly two years and
> because
> of ongoing intermittent IV sodium ascorbate drips which
> create hydrogen peroxide in the extracellular tissue and
> destroy cancer cells, he is still seemingly healthy and
> happy.  
> 
>  
> 
> As you can clearly see, the power of "vitamin" C extends
> well beyond what one would expect from a "vitamin" and
> according to Dr. Belfield, it has the power to heal and
> reverse a broad range of viruses and conditions in
> veterinary medicine.  It is tragic that Belfield saw
> these
> same remarkable results back in the 1960s in his own vet
> practice yet still today, some 40+ years later, with rare
> exception conventional vets are not even aware of the
> power
> of this miracle acid in veterinary medicine.  But at
> least
> those of you reading this are and I hope it is of benefit
> to
> you.  If you have questions or I can help any of you
> in any
> way, please don't hesitate to contact me, either on this
> board or via e-mail at ssjew...@bellsouth.net. 
> God bless
> each of you for your big hearts and compassion for animals
> and hopefully this information will help you in your own
> rescue work. 
> 
>  
> 
> Clinical
> <http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&=&q=clini
> cal+guide+to+the+use+of+vitamin+c&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g1> 
> Guide to
> the Use of Vitamin C
> 
>  
> 
> Megascorbic
> <http://www.seanet.com/~alexs/ascorbate/197x/belfield-w-j_in
> t_assn_prev_med-1978-v2-n3-p10.htm>  Prophylaxis
> and
> Megascorbic Therapy:  A New Orthomolecular Modality
> in
> Veterinary Medicine
> 
>  
> 
> An <http://www.belfield.com/pdfs/Feline_Leukemia.pdf>
> Orthomolecular Approach to Feline Leukemia Prevention and
> Control
> 
>  
> 
> www.Belfield.com <http://www.belfield.com/> .
> 
>  
> 
> The
> <http://www.amazon.com/Very-Healthy-Cat-Book-Vitamin/dp/0070
> 04354X>  Very Healthy Cat Book, by Wendell
> Belfield, DVM
> 
>  
> 
> Sally Jewell
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
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[Felvtalk] My experience with IV ascorbic acid and FIP - Final

[S. Jewell]

I posted a couple of links earlier that I found helpful
throughout the course of this nightmare and I post them
again below for those of you who may wish to undertake the
intravenous ascorbate protocol for your cats with FIP, FeLV,
URI, and other cat diseases.  If I had it to do over again,
each of my three cats would have been placed immediately on
the ascorbate and kept there until their fevers eradicated,
for only then is the virus also eradicated and left
powerless to replicate or resurface.  I have also used
intravenous ascorbate with one of my cats with
life-threatening upper respiratory infection (and chronic
pseudomonas aeruginosa) in conjunction with antibiotics.
She received a single vitamin C drip on Friday, then
antibiotics in her IV on Saturday and by Sunday night her
symptoms were all but gone (except of course for the P.A.).
And as I posted previously, my FeLV cat Linus has carried a
diagnosis of lymphosarcoma for nearly two years and because
of ongoing intermittent IV sodium ascorbate drips which
create hydrogen peroxide in the extracellular tissue and
destroy cancer cells, he is still seemingly healthy and
happy.  

 

As you can clearly see, the power of "vitamin" C extends
well beyond what one would expect from a "vitamin" and
according to Dr. Belfield, it has the power to heal and
reverse a broad range of viruses and conditions in
veterinary medicine.  It is tragic that Belfield saw these
same remarkable results back in the 1960s in his own vet
practice yet still today, some 40+ years later, with rare
exception conventional vets are not even aware of the power
of this miracle acid in veterinary medicine.  But at least
those of you reading this are and I hope it is of benefit to
you.  If you have questions or I can help any of you in any
way, please don't hesitate to contact me, either on this
board or via e-mail at ssjew...@bellsouth.net.  God bless
each of you for your big hearts and compassion for animals
and hopefully this information will help you in your own
rescue work. 

 

Clinical
  Guide to
the Use of Vitamin C

 

Megascorbic
  Prophylaxis and
Megascorbic Therapy:  A New Orthomolecular Modality in
Veterinary Medicine

 

An 
Orthomolecular Approach to Feline Leukemia Prevention and
Control

 

www.Belfield.com  .

 

The
  Very Healthy Cat Book, by Wendell Belfield, DVM

 

Sally Jewell

 

 

 

 

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[Felvtalk] My experience with IV ascorbic acid and FIP - Final

[S. Jewell]

I posted a couple of links earlier that I found helpful
throughout the course of this nightmare and I post them
again below for those of you who may wish to undertake the
intravenous ascorbate protocol for your cats with FIP, FeLV,
URI, and other cat diseases.  If I had it to do over again,
each of my three cats would have been placed immediately on
the ascorbate and kept there until their fevers eradicated,
for only then is the virus also eradicated and left
powerless to replicate or resurface.  I have also used
intravenous ascorbate with one of my cats with
life-threatening upper respiratory infection (and chronic
pseudomonas aeruginosa) in conjunction with antibiotics.
She received a single vitamin C drip on Friday, then
antibiotics in her IV on Saturday and by Sunday night her
symptoms were all but gone (except of course for the P.A.).
And as I posted previously, my FeLV cat Linus has carried a
diagnosis of lymphosarcoma for nearly two years and because
of ongoing intermittent IV sodium ascorbate drips which
create hydrogen peroxide in the extracellular tissue and
destroy cancer cells, he is still seemingly healthy and
happy.  

 

As you can clearly see, the power of "vitamin" C extends
well beyond what one would expect from a "vitamin" and
according to Dr. Belfield, it has the power to heal and
reverse a broad range of viruses and conditions in
veterinary medicine.  It is tragic that Belfield saw these
same remarkable results back in the 1960s in his own vet
practice yet still today, some 40+ years later, with rare
exception conventional vets are not even aware of the power
of this miracle acid in veterinary medicine.  But at least
those of you reading this are and I hope it is of benefit to
you.  If you have questions or I can help any of you in any
way, please don't hesitate to contact me, either on this
board or via e-mail at ssjew...@bellsouth.net.  God bless
each of you for your big hearts and compassion for animals
and hopefully this information will help you in your own
rescue work. 

 

Clinical
  Guide to
the Use of Vitamin C

 

Megascorbic
  Prophylaxis and
Megascorbic Therapy:  A New Orthomolecular Modality in
Veterinary Medicine

 

An 
Orthomolecular Approach to Feline Leukemia Prevention and
Control

 

www.Belfield.com  .

 

The
  Very Healthy Cat Book, by Wendell Belfield, DVM

 

Sally Jewell

 

 

 

 

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[Felvtalk] My experience with IV ascorbic acid and FIP - Part 3

[S. Jewell]

Part 3

 

Angelica

 

By now, after the deaths of my two precious boys Lukey, and
then baby Chuckie, it was becoming clear that we were
definitely seeing FIP in all three and on the right track
with the intravenous ascorbate but just not using enough.
Because Chuckie's immune system had been so terribly
weakened by his earlier conventional treatment with numerous
different antibiotics and steroids, we were up against a
wall going into his IV ascorbate treatment, and even then, I
was not totally sure that these cats could handle even
greater amounts of ascorbate for their illnesses.  Then I
went digging for more information from Dr. Belfield's papers
on how he had treated various diseases and I continued to
see a recurring theme - the more grave the illness and
virulent the virus, the more vitamin C it takes to destroy
the virus.  I finally began to see the big picture.  We were
not using enough vitamin C.  Lukey had responded to a couple
of drips but they were not continued because we thought the
anemia was killing him.  Chuckie had responded to at least
five days' worth of drips but they were stopped when his
fever first went down and we thought he was out of the
woods, though clearly he was not.  Now we have Angelica
heading down the same path to the same sad fate, and
finally, I knew what to do.  

 

Angelica was put on a drip alongside Chuckie when they were
both hospitalized on November 10.  Chuckie died on November
11 and Angelica was kept on the drip.  Because she had not
been dosed with the antibiotics and steroids that Chuckie
had received, her immune system was in better shape and we
had a better shot at saving her.  Remembering how we had
failed with Chuckie, in retrospect because of his weak
immune system, because his drips were too low, and because
the drips were stopped prematurely, Angelica's drips were
titrated up rapidly to 2g (2,000 mg) per pound of body
weight based on Belfield's protocol for severe disease, and
though I wasn't sure how she would handle this load, she did
fine and was kept at this level for 11 days.  Her fever
would drop by the end of each drip and I would take her
home, though each morning when I would return for her next
daily drip, her fever would be right back up to 104-105.
This went on for the first 6 days of treatment and by the
7th day her fever was holding down when we would return for
the next drip.  Remembering the words of Dr. Belfield that
the animal should be kept on the drip until the fevers
REMAINED down for at least four days, we continued on with
the drips.  By the day of her last drip, day 11, her fever
had been down for nearly five days and we felt comfortable
stopping the drips, though large doses of vitamin C were
added to her food to prevent her from suffering a rebound
scurvy effect from stopping the high dose vitamin C
abruptly.  To date, Angelica continues to be asymptomatic
and has made her way back to baseline and beyond.  She plays
with the third of her litter mates, Tommy, who was fortunate
enough to avoid the FIP.  She eats like a pig and is getting
both raw and canned food laced with vitamins and ongoing
vitamin C.  Though each morning I remember the scenario with
poor Chuckie as I reluctantly proceed to feel Angelica's
little ears and body for any sign of a fever, by God's grace
and the miracle of ascorbic acid she remains cool and with
each day that passes I believe we have beat this virus.  

 

 

 

Sally Snyder Jewell

Sally Snyder Jewell, Marketing Director

Tower Laboratories Corporation

www.HeartTech.com

1-877-TOWER-LABS

Practicing Medicine Without
  a License?
The Story of the Linus Pauling Therapy for Heart Disease, by
Owen Fonorow and Sally Snyder Jewell

 

 

 

 

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[Felvtalk] My experience with IV ascorbic acid and FIP - Part 3

[S. Jewell]

Part 3

 

Angelica

 

By now, after the deaths of my two precious boys Lukey, and
then baby Chuckie, it was becoming clear that we were
definitely seeing FIP in all three and on the right track
with the intravenous ascorbate but just not using enough.
Because Chuckie's immune system had been so terribly
weakened by his earlier conventional treatment with numerous
different antibiotics and steroids, we were up against a
wall going into his IV ascorbate treatment, and even then, I
was not totally sure that these cats could handle even
greater amounts of ascorbate for their illnesses.  Then I
went digging for more information from Dr. Belfield's papers
on how he had treated various diseases and I continued to
see a recurring theme - the more grave the illness and
virulent the virus, the more vitamin C it takes to destroy
the virus.  I finally began to see the big picture.  We were
not using enough vitamin C.  Lukey had responded to a couple
of drips but they were not continued because we thought the
anemia was killing him.  Chuckie had responded to at least
five days' worth of drips but they were stopped when his
fever first went down and we thought he was out of the
woods, though clearly he was not.  Now we have Angelica
heading down the same path to the same sad fate, and
finally, I knew what to do.  

 

Angelica was put on a drip alongside Chuckie when they were
both hospitalized on November 10.  Chuckie died on November
11 and Angelica was kept on the drip.  Because she had not
been dosed with the antibiotics and steroids that Chuckie
had received, her immune system was in better shape and we
had a better shot at saving her.  Remembering how we had
failed with Chuckie, in retrospect because of his weak
immune system, because his drips were too low, and because
the drips were stopped prematurely, Angelica's drips were
titrated up rapidly to 2g (2,000 mg) per pound of body
weight based on Belfield's protocol for severe disease, and
though I wasn't sure how she would handle this load, she did
fine and was kept at this level for 11 days.  Her fever
would drop by the end of each drip and I would take her
home, though each morning when I would return for her next
daily drip, her fever would be right back up to 104-105.
This went on for the first 6 days of treatment and by the
7th day her fever was holding down when we would return for
the next drip.  Remembering the words of Dr. Belfield that
the animal should be kept on the drip until the fevers
REMAINED down for at least four days, we continued on with
the drips.  By the day of her last drip, day 11, her fever
had been down for nearly five days and we felt comfortable
stopping the drips, though large doses of vitamin C were
added to her food to prevent her from suffering a rebound
scurvy effect from stopping the high dose vitamin C
abruptly.  To date, Angelica continues to be asymptomatic
and has made her way back to baseline and beyond.  She plays
with the third of her litter mates, Tommy, who was fortunate
enough to avoid the FIP.  She eats like a pig and is getting
both raw and canned food laced with vitamins and ongoing
vitamin C.  Though each morning I remember the scenario with
poor Chuckie as I reluctantly proceed to feel Angelica's
little ears and body for any sign of a fever, by God's grace
and the miracle of ascorbic acid she remains cool and with
each day that passes I believe we have beat this virus.  

 

 

 

Sally Snyder Jewell

Sally Snyder Jewell, Marketing Director

Tower Laboratories Corporation

www.HeartTech.com

1-877-TOWER-LABS

Practicing Medicine Without
  a License?
The Story of the Linus Pauling Therapy for Heart Disease, by
Owen Fonorow and Sally Snyder Jewell

 

 

 

 

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[Felvtalk] My experience with IV ascorbic acid and FIP - Part 2

[S. Jewell]

Part 2

 

Chuckie

 

The kittens Tommy, Chuckie and Angelica,  were altered and
received their rabies vaccinations on September 20, 2009.
(Note, again, Lukey died on October 1).  On October 8 the
kittens then received FVRCP vaccinations and were still
asymptomatic at that time.  About 12-15 days later one of
the male kittens, Chuckie, became lethargic and feverish and
stopped eating just as Lukey had done.  Between October 20
and October 31, despite extended vet visits,
hospitalizations, and negative test results except for mild
anemia (Haemobartonella, toxoplasmosis, coronavirus, ELISA,
PCR, normal lymphocytes and globulins, urine cultures,
x-rays, ultrasounds) with three different vets including one
specialist, the diagnosis remained "fever of unknown origin"
and the only thing done for him was a bucket load of
antibiotics and steroids.  Still thinking that his illness
was perhaps triggered by the vaccination, and distraught
that the conventional approach was failing and his condition
declining, on October 31 I took him straight from a
week-long hospitalization with one vet to the vet I had used
for intravenous vitamin C treatments for my FeLV cat with
lymphosarcoma (who is still alive two years after his
original diagnosis).  We put Chuckie on a vitamin C drip
that day of 5g daily (1g per pound of body weight as we had
used for Linus) for six days, with double drips morning and
evening on the last two days, and he appeared much better
with his fever down.  Unfortunately, the drip was stopped on
Thursday because his veins were shot from all of his earlier
hospitalizations and blood draws and also because the vet's
office would be closed over the weekend.  He still seemed
better on Saturday and was even out in the yard walking
around with me.  By the time the vet opened again on
Tuesday, November 10, however, Chuckie's condition was
critical, with severe neurological involvement including
ataxia and head tremors.  He was hospitalized that day and
the drip restarted, along with his sister Angelica who was
now manifesting with identical symptoms (the third of my
cats to exhibit this illness).   More blood was drawn from
Chuckie and sent for analysis.  Where he had previously been
negative across the board on all test results numerous times
except for chronic mild anemia, the new results returned
with rising coronavirus titers and a PCR test positive for
dry FIP.  He also had eye involvement on ophthalmoscopic
exam including granulomas.  Chuckie was so very sick on the
day that these positive test results returned and clearly
dying that there was no alternative but to euthanize him.
At this point the vet bills for Lukey, Chuckie and Angelica
have totaled nearly $4000 and had it not been for some FEMA
money that we received from the flooding, we would have been
in tremendous debt.  Meanwhile, Angelica is still
hospitalized and following right behind Chuckie with
identical symptoms even including some transient neurologic
involvement.  

 

Continued in next post . . .   

 

 

 

Sally Snyder Jewell

Sally Snyder Jewell, Marketing Director

Tower Laboratories Corporation

www.HeartTech.com

1-877-TOWER-LABS

Practicing Medicine Without
  a License?
The Story of the Linus Pauling Therapy for Heart Disease, by
Owen Fonorow and Sally Snyder Jewell

 

 

 

 

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[Felvtalk] My experience with IV ascorbic acid and FIP - Part 2

[S. Jewell]

Part 2

 

Chuckie

 

The kittens Tommy, Chuckie and Angelica,  were altered and
received their rabies vaccinations on September 20, 2009.
(Note, again, Lukey died on October 1).  On October 8 the
kittens then received FVRCP vaccinations and were still
asymptomatic at that time.  About 12-15 days later one of
the male kittens, Chuckie, became lethargic and feverish and
stopped eating just as Lukey had done.  Between October 20
and October 31, despite extended vet visits,
hospitalizations, and negative test results except for mild
anemia (Haemobartonella, toxoplasmosis, coronavirus, ELISA,
PCR, normal lymphocytes and globulins, urine cultures,
x-rays, ultrasounds) with three different vets including one
specialist, the diagnosis remained "fever of unknown origin"
and the only thing done for him was a bucket load of
antibiotics and steroids.  Still thinking that his illness
was perhaps triggered by the vaccination, and distraught
that the conventional approach was failing and his condition
declining, on October 31 I took him straight from a
week-long hospitalization with one vet to the vet I had used
for intravenous vitamin C treatments for my FeLV cat with
lymphosarcoma (who is still alive two years after his
original diagnosis).  We put Chuckie on a vitamin C drip
that day of 5g daily (1g per pound of body weight as we had
used for Linus) for six days, with double drips morning and
evening on the last two days, and he appeared much better
with his fever down.  Unfortunately, the drip was stopped on
Thursday because his veins were shot from all of his earlier
hospitalizations and blood draws and also because the vet's
office would be closed over the weekend.  He still seemed
better on Saturday and was even out in the yard walking
around with me.  By the time the vet opened again on
Tuesday, November 10, however, Chuckie's condition was
critical, with severe neurological involvement including
ataxia and head tremors.  He was hospitalized that day and
the drip restarted, along with his sister Angelica who was
now manifesting with identical symptoms (the third of my
cats to exhibit this illness).   More blood was drawn from
Chuckie and sent for analysis.  Where he had previously been
negative across the board on all test results numerous times
except for chronic mild anemia, the new results returned
with rising coronavirus titers and a PCR test positive for
dry FIP.  He also had eye involvement on ophthalmoscopic
exam including granulomas.  Chuckie was so very sick on the
day that these positive test results returned and clearly
dying that there was no alternative but to euthanize him.
At this point the vet bills for Lukey, Chuckie and Angelica
have totaled nearly $4000 and had it not been for some FEMA
money that we received from the flooding, we would have been
in tremendous debt.  Meanwhile, Angelica is still
hospitalized and following right behind Chuckie with
identical symptoms even including some transient neurologic
involvement.  

 

Continued in next post . . .   

 

 

 

Sally Snyder Jewell

Sally Snyder Jewell, Marketing Director

Tower Laboratories Corporation

www.HeartTech.com

1-877-TOWER-LABS

Practicing Medicine Without
  a License?
The Story of the Linus Pauling Therapy for Heart Disease, by
Owen Fonorow and Sally Snyder Jewell

 

 

 

 

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[Felvtalk] My experience with IV ascorbic acid and FIP

[S. Jewell]

A few days ago I posted about the reversal of FIP that I saw
in my kitten Angelica on high dose intravenous ascorbic acid
and have been following these subsequent posts with some bit
of sadness.  I believe Jenny makes the most valid arguments
and in an effort to provide more details about what happened
and help you see the timeline, I submit the following
histories.  Note:  This will be in two parts because of
length limits.  

 

Lukey

 

1.  My FeLV cat Lukey died on October 1 from what we now
believe was FIP.  He had been healthy and given the best
supplements, diet and care possible.  When his furnished
garage home was flooded in August 2009 we had to relocate
the three FeLV cats including Lukey to the back porch while
we recovered from the flooding.  The stress of the ordeal
triggered an illness in Lukey, though at the time it was
thought he was just in the end stages of the FeLV disease.
I now believe it was FIP for a number of reasons, not the
least of which is because his chronic high fevers,
inappetence, lethargy and weight loss continued for weeks
and weeks, even when he responded to the LTCI injections and
blood transfusion and his anemia was improving.  At that
time it didn't occur to me that some latent FIP might have
been triggered by the stress of the flooding and relocation.
Despite our efforts, including two separate vitamin C drips
(the only time when Lukey appeared to feel better), Lukey
died after placement of an esophageal feeding tube and even
then it did not occur to me that he could have had FIP.
However, his vet later mentioned that during placement of
the feeding tube while Lukey was under anesthesia his
intestines felt "gummy" and she realized that we had
probably been dealing with FIP all along and missed it.  Had
I only known, in retrospect (based only on what I learned
after the death of Chuckie below), I should have put Lukey
on the ascorbate drips according to the protocol provided by
Wendell Belfield, DVM, pushed him to the highest possible
dosage (2g per pound of body weight), and continued the
drips until his fevers came down and then for 4-5 days after
that.  We just didn't know what we were dealing with.  

 

During the time we cared for Lukey we were focused on doing
everything possible to save him and his care was very "hands
on."  Though we keep buckets of hand sanitizer in the garage
and use it faithfully before coming back into the house
among our other cats, it is very possible that we carried
FIP into the household on our clothes from the constant
contact and syringe feeding of Lukey.  Again, keep in mind
that we were not focused on the possibility that he had FIP.
In the household were three young kittens who were pulled
from a Kentucky kill shelter at just six weeks of age before
they were scheduled to be PTS.  At the time of Lukey's first
symptoms in late August 2009 of what we now believe was FIP,
the kittens were only 3 1/2 months old.  

 

 

Continued in next post . .

 

 

 

Sally Snyder Jewell

Sally Snyder Jewell, Marketing Director

Tower Laboratories Corporation

www.HeartTech.com

1-877-TOWER-LABS

Practicing Medicine Without
  a License?
The Story of the Linus Pauling Therapy for Heart Disease, by
Owen Fonorow and Sally Snyder Jewell

 

 

 

 

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[Felvtalk] My experience with IV ascorbic acid and FIP

[S. Jewell]

A few days ago I posted about the reversal of FIP that I saw
in my kitten Angelica on high dose intravenous ascorbic acid
and have been following these subsequent posts with some bit
of sadness.  I believe Jenny makes the most valid arguments
and in an effort to provide more details about what happened
and help you see the timeline, I submit the following
histories.  Note:  This will be in two parts because of
length limits.  

 

Lukey

 

1.  My FeLV cat Lukey died on October 1 from what we now
believe was FIP.  He had been healthy and given the best
supplements, diet and care possible.  When his furnished
garage home was flooded in August 2009 we had to relocate
the three FeLV cats including Lukey to the back porch while
we recovered from the flooding.  The stress of the ordeal
triggered an illness in Lukey, though at the time it was
thought he was just in the end stages of the FeLV disease.
I now believe it was FIP for a number of reasons, not the
least of which is because his chronic high fevers,
inappetence, lethargy and weight loss continued for weeks
and weeks, even when he responded to the LTCI injections and
blood transfusion and his anemia was improving.  At that
time it didn't occur to me that some latent FIP might have
been triggered by the stress of the flooding and relocation.
Despite our efforts, including two separate vitamin C drips
(the only time when Lukey appeared to feel better), Lukey
died after placement of an esophageal feeding tube and even
then it did not occur to me that he could have had FIP.
However, his vet later mentioned that during placement of
the feeding tube while Lukey was under anesthesia his
intestines felt "gummy" and she realized that we had
probably been dealing with FIP all along and missed it.  Had
I only known, in retrospect (based only on what I learned
after the death of Chuckie below), I should have put Lukey
on the ascorbate drips according to the protocol provided by
Wendell Belfield, DVM, pushed him to the highest possible
dosage (2g per pound of body weight), and continued the
drips until his fevers came down and then for 4-5 days after
that.  We just didn't know what we were dealing with.  

 

During the time we cared for Lukey we were focused on doing
everything possible to save him and his care was very "hands
on."  Though we keep buckets of hand sanitizer in the garage
and use it faithfully before coming back into the house
among our other cats, it is very possible that we carried
FIP into the household on our clothes from the constant
contact and syringe feeding of Lukey.  Again, keep in mind
that we were not focused on the possibility that he had FIP.
In the household were three young kittens who were pulled
from a Kentucky kill shelter at just six weeks of age before
they were scheduled to be PTS.  At the time of Lukey's first
symptoms in late August 2009 of what we now believe was FIP,
the kittens were only 3 1/2 months old.  

 

 

Continued in next post . .

 

 

 

Sally Snyder Jewell

Sally Snyder Jewell, Marketing Director

Tower Laboratories Corporation

www.HeartTech.com

1-877-TOWER-LABS

Practicing Medicine Without
  a License?
The Story of the Linus Pauling Therapy for Heart Disease, by
Owen Fonorow and Sally Snyder Jewell

 

 

 

 

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